The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-12

fond and true, then gave up to the seeming
inevitable. She wiped her fair face, down
which the trickling tears had flowed, when
warren Loveling, a worthy citizen of the
adJacent village of Chatham, asked her to
De his wife. Happiness ensued, and the
Mr.. Loveling's joy.
NEWS FROM THE SUPPOSED DEAD.
A short time ago the postmaster at Brew
ster received letter of inquiry from AL
pheuS Myrick. Happening TO be at Liver
pool, he thought that he would write to his
old home to ascertain if his wife was alive,
ana how many of the Myrick family We're
gathered to their fathers.
The letter was passed over to brother of
Alpheus Myrick by the postmaster, to whom
1t was addressed. Charles Myrick was
astounded by the intelligence. He supposed
MS brother long since dead. When he re-
covered from his amazement he told his sis
ter the startling development and sat down
TO communicate with the wanderer. In the
letter which Charles Mylick addressed to
ms brother, the family history was sketched
from the date of Alpheus' departure up to
the present time. The story of the second
marriage of his wife and the reasons there
for were related in detail After the letter
was sent Charles Myrick enjoined secrecy as
to the discovery of his brothers presence in
| the flesh.
THE WANDERER RETURNS.
One night last week a gray-haired man
over fifty years of age alighted at the little
station of the Old Colony railroad at Brew
ster When the evening train from Boston ar
rived. Repairing at once to the Myrick
homestead the stranger disclosed his identi-
ty. 1t was Alpheus Myrick. He had jour
neyed from England hither to get glimpse
once more of the home of his boyhood, and
to see his old friends again. A person who
knew him well and conversed with him, re-
lates the following
II should have known it was Alpheus
Myrlck the minute clapped my eyes on
him, even if | hadn't known he had come
| back to life and was expected home every
day. 1t was the same chap he was twenty
seven years ago, only grown older, and he
| didn't seem to have grown old near so fast
| as we have here in Brewster He said that
| when he went from London in that small
steamer 1T was stormy voyage they made,
and when they finally did get into port they
We're seventy-tive days overdue. From the
Indies he cruised about everywhere, taking
| good care to keep away from this country
while the war lasted, as his father had
warned him. Letters were not answered
which he sent, and he quit writing them.
| FINALLY, about seven years after he had
left Brewster, he was in a port in South
America, where some Cape Cod seanen
were lying to, and he once heard several OF
them talking about news from home, and
one man from Chatham said: We'll, they
say that poor Alpheus Myricks widow has
married again-a man at Chatham That
was enough for him.
| ION the strength of that he gave up fol
lowing the sea, and determined to settle
down right there in South America and
never go back to Cape Cod again. He never
wrote any letters after that or tried to get
communication from home He stayed
there for a number of years without going
to sea, and was but few miles all the time
| from the South American port where his
brother Charles was sailing to, back and
forth from New York. After a while he
took to the sea again, and became as great
a wanderer as before, going all over the
world, but never near Cape Cod. Last win
ter he was in Liverpool, and it was there he
wrote from to find out if all hands in Brew
ster were dead and what kind of a reception
he might expect if he should come home"
Alpheus Myrick did not receive the letter
sent to him by his brother Charles. AL
though he was aware of the marriage of his
| wife he could not resist the desire in his
heart to return to the Cape once more. AT
| ter seeing his brother and sister he returned
to Boston, never to set face in Brewster
again. He has ere this left the country.